Florian Feilmair wins the 2nd prize in the International Piano Competition Verona.
44 pianist from all over the world were selected to compete in the competition from 4th to 7th December 2014.
The competition was held in 3 rounds. The Preliminary Round and the Semifinal took place at the conservatory in Mantova, the Final was in the Teatro Ristori in Verona. Florian Feilmair's programm consisted of works by Ravel, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos and Liszt.
The Chairman of the international Jury was the famous pianist Leslie Howard.

Florian Feilmair wins the 2nd Prize in the "New Orleans International Piano Competition 2014", USA.
Out of 152 pianists around the world, 12 participants were invited to compete in the piano competition, which took place from 21st to 27th July in the Rousell Hall in New Orleans.
The competition was devided into two Semifinal Rounds and the Final, where three pianists were selected to play a one hour recital.
Florian Feilmair's programme of the Final Round was Valée d'Obermann by Liszt, Beethoven Sonata op. 31/3 and Strawinsky's Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka.
In March Florian Feilmair will return to New Orleans to perform a piano concerto with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carlos Prieto.

The new recording of Benjamin Feilmair, clarinet and Florian Feilmair, piano is now released. The pieces on this CD have one thing in common: they are successful precursors of the modern trend towards crossover aesthetics. The main characteristic uniting them all is their ability to mix styles without losing their originality. New genres which emerged in the early 20th century have influenced classical music production; in particular, jazz, Latin American folklore and the folk music of the countries from which the composers originated or which they have visited flow into their compositions. The seamless and harmonious manner in which these styles are synthesised is demonstrated by the compilation of this selection. The line between so-called classical and popular music becomes blurred: Don't mind the gap!

Florian Feilmair won 2nd prize in the XXVII Concurso Internacional de Piano Cidade Ferrol in Spain. The program of the final was Beethoven's piano concerto No. 5 "Emperor", which he performed together with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Galicia conducted by maestro Enrique Garcia Asensio in the Teatro Jofre in Ferrol.

“Sensitivity and a wealth of nuances”, “pearly ease and aplomb” are only a few of the traits critics attributed to the young pianist Florian Feilmair. Born in 1989, he has already captured a considerable number of important prizes, among them the “Klassik.Preis.Österreich” [Austrian Prize for Classical Music] for his interpretation of Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto with the Mozarteum Orchestra at the “gradus ad parnassum” competition, in which he also won in the piano category. In 2011, he won first prize in the international piano competition "Neue Sterne" in Wernigerode, Germany.
After lessons at the Seewalchen Music School, Florian Feilmair was initially a student of the Anton Bruckner private university’s basic artistic degree programme in Linz under Naoko Knopp. After graduating, he returned to his native city of Vienna, where he was initially taught by Christopher Hinterhuber and ultimately accepted into the Vienna Music University in 2008 as a student under Jan Gottlieb Jiracek von Arnim.
Florian Feilmair’s concert career began in his schooldays at the Linz College of Music, where he made several appearances as a soloist with the in-house orchestra. He can meanwhile be heard regularly in important Austrian venues, for example in the Vienna Konzerthaus or in the Brucknerhaus Linz. In addition to his solo activities he is also active as a chamber musician, partnered mainly in a duo with his brother, clarinettist Benjamin Feilmair.